That’s just a partial list of
subjects for mental depression these days.
In fact, the amount of barriers to a
return to the placid United States (or
world) we used to know has just about
everyone including experts wondering how or
what can be done to avoid a total breakdown
of society. The unthinkable has become
a common thought: is some sort of world or
civil war inevitable? Or is that
convention too passe, being replaced with
something even more dreadful?

Well, before we
decide to collectively jump off the closest
bridge, or speed off cliffs in our vehicle
of choice, there are steps being taken to
solve all the problems above. No,
liberals in Congress haven’t been secretly
meeting with the President to actually do
what’s necessary (they won’t), but
strangely, corrective actions are being
taken in certain liberal jurisdictions, and
it will eventually (have to) bubble up to
all others including the federal government.
(Photo: Central Falls R.I. mass transit)

But first, take a look at the top hit
you see if you google "Central Falls, RI"

This “Bright Future” city went 83%
for Obama in 2008. Yet the President
decided to instead visit Cannon Falls, (MN)
where he only got 53% of the vote.
Given the tremendous support he got
from Central Falls, why would he not choose
it over some small midwest town who barely
went for him?

Rhode Island’s Obama-loving city is
bankrupt.

They had adopted the full meal deal of
family- and prevailing- wage jobs, the exact
philosophy of our president and his party.
But the president’s handlers
decided it would be prudent to avoid the
city for now. Just not the right time,
you know. That’s too bad, because all
liberals, especially our socialistic
president, need to learn what has to be done
to get serious about fixing government
(assuming that’s what they really wish to
do). The president could have met with
Central Falls’ Robert G. Flanders, the
city’s new employee.

Its RECEIVER.

This person would have told our man-child
president of the steps he is taking to get
the city back in the business it is supposed
to be in, which is governing within its
means. Mr. Flanders probably wouldn’t
have introduced him to the many unions of
the city however, because Mr. Flanders
recently presided over a city hall meeting
where his agenda included the following
specific items listed for automatic
adoption:

Note item “B” above. This
unusual measure was included because, “The
City would be unable to fund any other
service or expense, including public safety,
public works or debt service for nearly five
years in order to fund…” JUST the
City’s pension and health care benefits,
which were so generously negotiated over the
years with the powerful city unions by
friendly city leaders of this very cozy,
Democrat-controlled community. The
foxes (relatives of wolves) had long been in
charge of the hen house. Mr. Obama
would have understood the Central Falls
foxes, having been one all his political
life, so perhaps that’s why he wanted to go
to a small (non-bankrupt) Minnesota town
instead, where he wouldn’t be recognized in
his presidential (sheep’s) clothing.

Experience
is the best teacher

What lessons does Central Falls have
for our nation’s uncounted cities, counties
and even many states who are near or in the
same financial predicament? Well, the
first is, the unions that squeezed them into
their financial box could not and did not
come to any negotiated adjustments to their
excessive contracts in order to help the
city avoid the necessity of bankruptcy.
In other words, in negotiations prior
to the city’s fall from grace, the unions,
despite facing the certainty of reductions
to existing workers salaries AND retiree’s
pension payments, would not agree to any
realistic reductions. Instead, they
continued to demand the impossible because
that’s what they had gotten for decades and
were used to it. Their intransigence
is typical of the liberal mentality that
somehow, some way, the future will be
covered because it always has been.
And their enablers, longtime majority
liberal elected representatives, didn’t know
how to use the word “no” because they had
expunged it from their vocabulary decades
ago.

The above scenario is currently in
some stage of hidden display in many of our
nation’s jurisdictions, including states.
Interestingly, there doesn’t exist a
legal bankruptcy option for states, but then
there wasn’t one originally for the city of
Central Falls either. The Rhode Island
legislature had to quickly enact a process
to allow the city to legally proceed.
Even the legislature had no option,
because the state itself isn’t in the best
financial condition, for reasons we can all
guess by now. Even Senator, now
Vice President Joe Biden could not put
Humpty Dumpty together again. I’m not
sure he could ever have put anything
together in his life, but the smart voters
of Rhode Island and its “city with a bright
future” voted for him for over thirty years.
The future arrived and Biden is now
Vice President. That says just about
everything.
(photo G. Custer -- political
ancestor of Joe Biden)

Perhaps this year or early next, Congress
will have to enact similar legislation when
a state reaches their final fiscal chasm.
Look sometime soon for Michigan,
Illinois or California to stand before the
abyss, kicking and screaming, unwilling to
fix their problems internally, finally
forced by legal pressures that will hand the
responsibilities they squandered over to a
receiver. Hopefully the Republican
House will not cave to the inevitable
liberal demands for bailing out totally
failed states. The inability of the
majority party (Democrats) to say “no” must
lead to the inevitability of a legal
receiver who WILL say “no” because there
isn’t another word as operative.

Whether it’s liberal city officials
blindly granting unsustainable salary and
pension benefits to their friends the
unions, or liberal Congressmen in Washington
D.C. blindly appropriating trillions for
their uncounted friends, they all gravitated
to the power and joy of writing checks
guaranteed by citizens unknown and unborn.
Government unions have been running with the
philosophy that all their government
employers are permanent because direct local
and indirect federal taxpayers will always
pay the bills no matter what. Its a
sad commentary on the excesses of liberal
governing. Although too many
conservative politicians have not fought
hard enough to restrain or demand fiscal
responsibility, it is interesting to note
how many states are NOT in trouble, and how
all of these are politically conservative.
Numbers do not lie. True
budgeting requires the willingness to resist
the joy of giving other people’s money away,
an addiction inherent with our social
justice liberals within the Democrat party,
with the help of too many Republicans as
well.
Okay, local and state governments in trouble
have a path, a difficult one, the screaming
meemi tsunami of bankruptcy--but an actual
solution, but what about the worst offender
of all: our gargantuan spender of all
spenders, the Federal Government? The
answer can only lie with electing absolute
fiscal hawks, because there doesn’t exist a
Federal Government bankruptcy receiver
option.

(photo : a typical present-day
American fiscal hawk)

We HAVE to get control of our federal
government spending and the debt it has
accumulated. Pouring more stimulus
money into a fire created by stimuluses and
deficit spending over the years is insane.
It can’t be the solution because it
defies logic, if logic be the language of
numbers, which it is.

So 2012 becomes perhaps the last
chance for this nation to reverse its
wayward fiscal ways. We must elect a
president and legislative politicians who
know how to actually say “no” and say “no”
over and over, in order to start the painful
but required process of paying down federal
and state debt by vastly reducing government
expenditures at all levels. We must
learn to save up for big expenditures rather
than spend now and pay later. That
gravy train is over. And it must be
done without increasing tax rates. At
the federal level, we must adopt a flat tax,
or variant thereof, where EVERYONE pays
something, even if it’s a can of tuna, at a
15-18% flat rate. We must release the
power of fiscal and economic stability
so our business men and women can plan,
create, prosper and ultimately contribute to
repairing the mess created by the
socialistic engineers of Congress and this
president.

There are citizens
all over this nation who just want the
government to be responsible, efficient and
limited. It’s the way of the
Constitution, a rather straightforward,
wonderful document that didn’t require 2500
pages. Simple, powerful, honest and
free.